Honoring the 62 St. Ambrose champs

The Catholic High School League is honoring the Soup Bowl Champions of 50 years ago at Saturday’s Prep Bowl at Ford Field. The league champions in 1962 were the St. Ambrose Cavaliers.

St. Ambrose players and coaches will be honored following the Catholic League C-D Division championship game. That C-D game matches Allen Park Cabrini and Detroit Loyola and will kick off at 4 p.m.

St. Ambrose, a Class C school located in Grosse Pointe Park, was a football powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s. The school, which closed in 1971, had legendary coaches like Tom Boisture, who later became director of player personnel for the New York Giants, and George Perles, who later coached at Michigan State.

The A-B Division championship game between Orchard Lake St. Mary’s and Novi Catholic Central follows at 7 p.m.

The day at Ford Field begins at 8 a.m. with CYO exhibition games. At 10 a.m., the CYO championship involving Birmingham St. Regis and Plymouth Our Lady of Good Counsel will be played. At 1 p.m., the Prep Bowl Championship between Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard and Pontiac Notre Dame Prep kicks off.